Boris at it again and the contest to replace the lying c***

[Papper]

Have to separate Govt response into style and/or substance. Johnson is a jolly clown but you suspect people like Cummings pull the strings. Much the same with Blair. As for Sunak, well he's ex Goldman Sachs so he knows his stuff, but I would imagine his remit is to keep the Stock Markets safe from complete decimation and much of his plans are aimed at protecting blue-chip companies rather than the average Joe.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Sunak is a PM in waiting. He has been impressive. Johnson has been bumbling, and that is kind as I don't really want to call him a clown. Not in a crisis.

He's not a clown at the moment but he reminds me of Bush on the morning of 9/11. Sat there, wide eyed, not knowing which way to jump.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

If he could stop treating it as some kind of inconvenience and an intrusion on his precious time, that might help.

Note that he didn't do the press conference today. He doesn't do weekends, essentially if you want to invade the UK then do it after 6pm on a Friday as the PM will have fucked off somewhere.

 

[lemonjelly]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/20/boris-johnson-covid-19-prime-minister-brexit?CMP=share_btn_tw

 

[Keef]

If he could stop treating it as some kind of inconvenience and an intrusion on his precious time, that might help.

Note that he didn't do the press conference today. He doesn't do weekends, essentially if you want to invade the UK then do it after 6pm on a Friday as the PM will have fucked off somewhere.

The RAF are famously known to knock off on a Friday dinner time,apart from the QRA quick reaction planes that intercept the russians

 

[darlowolf64]

Sunak is a PM in waiting. He has been impressive. Johnson has been bumbling, and that is kind as I don't really want to call him a clown. Not in a crisis.

He's not a clown at the moment but he reminds me of Bush on the morning of 9/11. Sat there, wide eyed, not knowing which way to jump.

He's a bare faced lier. Couldn't lie straight in bed and couldn't answer a question if it was "what is 1 + 1?"
Spouted on about saving the local hospital and proceeded to do fuck all. I hate that Boris is making him look so "competent" but he'll unraveling time

 

[Sniffer]

He's got something better to be doing today then? There wasn't one yesterday either.

The government’s regular coronavirus press conference will take place virtually later today, Downing Street said.

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Michael Gove, and the deputy chief medical officer, Dr Jenny Harries, will host the virtual press conference.

 

[Templeton Peck]

You can sympathise with him, because he’s spent his life praising the free market, and all the solutions to this problem involve opposing the free market. Even the shortages in shops could have been avoided by basic rationing, but the free market dictates that if no one in the street has toilet roll, except for the Prendergast family who have hired a skip to put it all in, that’s for the best because the free market can’t be wrong.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...mic-press-briefing-chris-whitty-a9428431.html

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Today would have been the final day of D-Cam's 2015 Government if it had run its full term. Feels like decades ago...

Still a dishfaced bastard obviously.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

They're *actually* briefing now that we need to leave the EU by the end of 2020 because er, otherwise we can't respond properly to the pandemic.

Still utter fucking morons. Remember this next time they or their cheerleaders moan about anyone politicising it.

 

[pr0sl0]

Have a hunch they're calculating that a) most people don't really give a shit any more, especially with what's going on now (we got it "done", after all), and b) might as well fold the economic crash from Brexit into the one that's underway from the coronavirus, and neutralise any fallout from the latter.

 

[Tredman]

They're *actually* briefing now that we need to leave the EU by the end of 2020 because er, otherwise we can't respond properly to the pandemic.

Still utter fucking morons. Remember this next time they or their cheerleaders moan about anyone politicising it.

FFS man, now is not the time for being unsensitive when others are being unsensitive. Fucking hell.

 

[Tony Towner]

Have a hunch they're calculating that a) most people don't really give a shit any more, especially with what's going on now (we got it "done", after all), and b) might as well fold the economic crash from Brexit into the one that's underway from the coronavirus, and neutralise any fallout from the latter.

B is bang on. Will be impossible to distinguish between the two

 

[Johnny75]

B is bang on. Will be impossible to distinguish between the two

I'm not sure there will even be a difference. Economically the world is going to look very different once the worst of this is over.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Every economy is going to be toilet. If it has to happen (which I guess it does now) the end of the year might actually end up being the most painless time for it to occur. Strange times indeed.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I beg to differ, it will greatly diminish our chances of recovering compared to pretty much everyone else in the world, will probably just sink us further, there won't be a 0% net impact. The equivalent of getting relegated to League One and still keeping Saunders. Or should we get an unexpectedly early relief from this crisis, it'll wipe out any gains we make in 2020.

It's colossally pigheaded. They've got the easiest get out ever from a stupid situation they engineered themselves (we MUST leave by this date, oh wait we can't now because of a global killer disease, let's do it sensibly if we have to and take whatever time we need) and they're brazenly refusing to even contemplate it.

 

[Papper]

Every economy is going to be toilet. If it has to happen (which I guess it does now) the end of the year might actually end up being the most painless time for it to occur. Strange times indeed.

It was going to the toilet long before Covid in fact it's worse than when Limahl was kicked out of Kajagoogoo in terms of credibility. There is no economy, there hasn't been for twenty years or more, it is completely false and consumerism is defunct. Debt is fucking stupendous across the board. Funnily enough this will now kill off the middle classes in the UK.

 

[Paul]

You talk some twaddle you do

 

[Papper]

You talk some twaddle you do

Maybe the final sentence (but who's know who will get the inevitable tax hikes). In terms of the economy, specifically UK I don't feel far wrong. Thatcher had Nth Sea Oil and priavtised stuff then later we get high govt borrowing, cheap credit, QE etc and still national/household debt has risen massively. The Capitalist system that is heavily reliant on consumerism is failing and in it's death throes.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

That's opinion though.

I reckon it will bounce back fairly strongly myself. It will take a bit of time, but Capitalism isn't going to suddenly collapse, no matter how much it seems you would like that to be so.